[quote=Gordon Booth;941391]
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Originally Posted by JCB
We live in a Parliamentary Democracy .
We do not legislate by referendums (quote) .
Perhaps it's time we did, in cases as important as the peacefull takeover of our country!
If a referendum was acceptable in 1975 to get us in then your argument is negated. A referendum to decide if we stay in should be just as legitimate.
As you say, the political parties are happy enough to have one when it suits their purpose( as in 1975 and 2011).
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The 1975 referendum was not to get us in . We had been in since 1973 . It was to see whether we should stay in , and was really for Harold Wilson's party political reasons , to solve problems in the Labour Party about the EEC .
Parliamentary sovereignty in the UK means that referendums are not constitutionally binding .
I am not in favour of them anyway .